International Conference at Goethe University Frankfurt, June 23-25, 2023 The last two decades have seen a plethora of new studies on the history of the Black Power movement. Taken together, these studies have revised one-dimensional interpretations of the movement, exploring its roots, the significance of local organizing, African American women’s contributions, the movement’s political impact,…
Read MorePoetry Reading & Workshop with Dominick Knowles (Brandeis University) & Mathilda Cullen (U at Buffalo) July 7, 2023, 4-7 p.m. via Zoom Friday, July 7, 2023 | 4:00 pm–7:00 pm CEST | 10:00 am–1:00 pm EST | on Zoom Collaborating poets Mathilda Cullen and Dominick Knowles are joining us for the sixth installment in this…
Read MoreWorkshop (in person and via Zoom) at the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (BCDSS) | University of Bonn, June 20-21, 2023 Deadline for registration: June 7, 2023 “Global Voyages, Local Sites: The Long Shadow of Atlantic Slavery in the Anglo-American and German Pacific” workshop brings together renowned scholars working in the fields of Slavery…
Read MoreInternational conference at Bangor University, UK | September 7-8, 2023 Deadline: June 16, 2023 An in-person academic conference hosted by The Centre for Film, Television and Screen Studies, Bangor University, UK | 7 and 8 September 2023 Paul Verhoeven(b. 1938) has left an indelible mark on popular culture. His films marry a European arthouse sensibility…
Read MoreAnnual conference ofthe Bayerische Amerika-Akademie / Amerikahaus München Munich, July 6-8, 2023 “Environmental Citizenship: Politics, Practices, Representations” BAA Annual Conference 2023: Thursday, July 06 – Saturday, July 08, 2023 The notion of Environmental Citizenship resonates strongly across the disciplines as well as in political, educational, and activist practice. The urgency of current debates about climate change,…
Read MoreFinal conference of the DFG funded research network ‘The Failure of Knowledge – Knowledges of Failure’ Mannheim University | May 4-6, 2023 Conference website: The Failure of Knowledge – Knowledges of Failure (knowledge-failure.org) The event is open to the public, and the keynotes will be streamed. To receive the link or register for conference attendance…
Read MoreForthcoming publication that will examine the representation and negotiation of “cultures of denunciation” in nineteenth-century American literature Deadline: June 1, 2023 The themes of ostracism, social exclusion, and defamation have become increasingly and globally relevant in contemporary society, with the rise of cancel culture and public condemnation of perceived misdemeanors. We have recently witnessed the…
Read More10th Conference of the Captivating Criminality Network Bath Spa University in Bath, UK | August 31-September 2, 2023 Deadline: May 1, 2023 The Captivating Criminality Network is delighted to announce its tenth conference, Captivating Criminality 10: Celebrating Crime Fiction, which will be held at Bath Spa University in Bath, UK. Building upon and developing ideas and themes…
Read MoreAnnual Conference of the Association for Anglophone Postcolonial Studies (GAPS) University of Konstanz, May 17-20, 2023 Keynotes by Homi K. Bhabha, Elleke Boehmer, and Manu Karuka For more information and conference registration, please visit GAPS 2023 – GAPS 2023 annual conference
Read More50th annual conference of the Austrian Association for American Studies | University of Klagenfurt, October 20-22, 2023 Deadline: May 31, 2023
Read MoreInternational conference at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies | May 25-27, 2023 Registration is now open: Konferenzen – Heidelberg Center for American Studies (HCA) (uni-heidelberg.de)
Read MoreMay 2-3, 2023 | University of Tübingen Dear colleagues, friends, and interested parties, we would like to draw your attention to an exciting opportunity: The symposium “Social Justice and Technological Futures” will be held in person on May 2 and 3, 2023, at the University of Tübingen in Germany. The symposium features a series of…
Read More11th IASA World Congress 2023 (ASA) “Journeying (the) Americas: The Paradoxes of Travel (and) Narratives” University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland | September 7-10, 2023 Deadline: April 14, 2023
Read MoreAnnual Conference of the Bavarian American Academy (BAA) in Munich, Germany, July 6-8, 2023 CfP for the Young Scholars’ Forum Deadline: April 28, 2023 Young Scholars’ Forum: Call for Papers One of the key questions of our time is how to act – individually and collectively – at a time of climate crisis that needs…
Read MoreOnline Conference at the University of Freiburg and the University of Surrey | August 30-31, 2023 Deadline: May 15, 2023
Read MoreBavarian America Academy, Amerikahaus Munich March 24-25, 2023
Read More20th Annual Conference of the Emerging Scholars Forum of the Association for Canadian Studies in German-Speaking Countries John F. Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin | June 29-30, 2023 Deadline: March 31, 2023
Read MorePublic lecture by Angela N. Parker, Mercer University Amerikahaus München, March 14, 2023, 7.30 p.m. Information and registration: nicole.schneider@ku.de
Read MoreInternational Conference at Potsdam University | March 29-31, 2023 What is a crisis? From a financial, economic, political, psychological or even moral perspective, and many more, the word ‘crisis’ continues to leave traces on our public and private discourse, often accepted as an unavoidable and uncontested category to qualify the present. The three-day hybrid conference will attempt to…
Read MoreSymposium at the University of Münster, May 31, 2023 CfP Deadline: March 24, 2023
Read MoreInternational Graduate Conference 2023 Graduate School of North American Studies, John F. Kennedy Institute for North AmericanStudies | Freie Universität Berlin, June 15-16, 2023 Deadline: March 18, 2023
Read More12th International Summer Academy of the Bavarian American Academy Munich | June 5-13, 2023 in Lexington, Kentucky Deadline: March 17, 2023
Read MoreAnnual Conference of the Historians of the German Association for American Studies Akademie für Politische Bildung Tutzing, May 5-7, 2023 Registration is now open here: https://www.apb-tutzing.de/programm/anmeldung.php?tid=118177
Read MoreSeminar and symposium at Sapienza University of Rome, June 12-17, 2023 Deadline (seminar): March 1, 2023. Deadline (symposium): February 15, 2023
Read MoreInternational and Transdisciplinary Summer School for PhD Candidates at Mainz University, June 18-24, 2023 Application Deadline: February 28, 2023
Read MoreInternational Conference at Stuttgart University | March 30-31, 2023 For more information on the program and on how to register, please visit: Conference Englishconf2023 | University of Stuttgart (uni-stuttgart.de)
Read MoreInternational Conference at the University of Tübingen, June 20-22, 2023 Deadline: March 31, 2023
Read MoreFriday, December 2, 2022 | 4:00 pm–7:00 pm CEST | 10:00 am–1:00 pm EST Poet and translator Daniel Borzutzky is joining us for our fifth installment in this series. His latest books are Written After a Massacre in the Year 2018; Lake Michigan, a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry Prize and The Performance of…
Read MoreInternational Conference at LMU Munich, May 11–13, 2023 Deadline: December 31, 2022
Read MoreA Conference co-hosted by The Political Science Section of the German Association for American Studies, Atlantische Akademie Rheinland-Pfalz e.V., Freie Universität and Bard College Berlin May 25-27, 2023 | John-F.-Kennedy Institute, Freie Universität Berlin Deadline: December 15, 2022
Read MoreInternational conference on Ben Lerner’s Poetry, Fiction, criticism and artistic collaborations June 28 – July 1, 2023 | Paris, France Deadline: November 30, 2022
Read MoreAmerikahaus Munich | November 17-19, 2022 “Playing the Field III: Video Game Ecologies and American Studies” serves as a platform for scholarly exchange on the growing significance of the medium of video games in American (and global) culture. Contributions will examine the environments that video games affect and are impacted by through the lens of…
Read MoreInternational and interdisciplinary conference at TU Dresden | November 9-12, 2022 This conference is dedicated to interdisciplinary dialogues between the environmental humanities and the boundary-defying work of the late philosopher of science Michel Serres. Committed to the incessant circulations between nature and culture, the global and the local, the natural sciences and the humanities, Michel…
Read MoreInternational Conference of the Research Network Gender – Power Relations – State at Philipps-Universität Marburg and Herder-Institute Marburg | November 23-25, 2022
Read MoreDeadline: October 1, 2022 Dear GAAS members, It is with great pleasure that we bring a grant/funding opportunity to your attention. On the occasion of the 75-year anniversary of American Studies at Schloss Leopoldskron (Salzburg, Austria). EAAS will partially fund a post-doc/early career scholar to attend the Salzburg Global Seminar on “Democracy on the Front…
Read More8th annual conference of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft (KWG) | Saarland University, 27–30 September 2023 Deadline: October 15, 2022
Read MoreTwo-day symposium of the American Studies division at Leibniz University of Hannover September 29-30, 2022
Read MoreSecond international conference of the ERC-funded project “PACT: Populism and Conspiracy Theory” University of Tübingen, September 15-17, 2022 The second international conference of the ERC-funded project PACT: Populism and Conspiracy Theory, titled ‘Populism and Conspiracy Theories in the Americas’, will take place on 15-17 September 2022, hosted by the University of Tübingen, Germany. Keynote speakers…
Read More69th Annual Meeting of the DGfA/GAAS June 1-3, 2023 | Rostock University Deadline: October 1, 2022 America and Ownership: Territory, Slavery, Jubilee Still suffering from the shattering economic effects of the global financial crisis triggered by US banks’ large-scale gambling in the real estate sector, America voted a real estate speculator to become its 45th…
Read MoreJuly 24-29, 2022 | WWU Münster
Read MoreJuly 2, 2022 | University of Freiburg The ubiquity of digital connectivity and the subsequent diminishing of human connection have become truths of our time. This conference starts with the assumption that digital overload takes a toll on people’s ability to connect meaningfully with themselves or with others. As many studies have shown hyperconnectivity can lead…
Read MoreJuly 6-8, 2022 | Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, Bonn University Conference website: New Perspectives on Cultural Heritage and German Global History — BCDSS (uni-bonn.de)
Read MoreDept. of American Literature and Culture, Stuttgart University / English Institute, University of Education Ludwigsburg | March 30-31, 2023 Deadline: September 30, 2022
Read MoreInterdisciplinary Conference in New Delhi, India | November 22-24, 2022 Deadline: July 31, 2022 This international conference focuses on addressing the impact of CoVID-19 on the marginalized by studying a variety of aspects pertaining to inclusion and marginalization, particularly through the lens of the pandemic, both in historical and contemporary contexts. For more information and registration, visit:…
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Read MoreBegegnungsstätte Kleine Synagoge Erfurt | June 23-24, 2022
Read MoreThe American Studies Program at HU Berlin is happy to announce that Jean-Ulrick Désert’s beautiful memorial marker for W.E.B. Du Bois’s study years at the university of Berlin has been installed earlier this year. A big thank you to all GAAS members who donated! We will celebrate the memorial with an official unveiling in July:…
Read MoreChristian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel | June 3, 2022, 2-7 p.m. In July 2021, readers of the Financial Times may have been surprised to read an op-ed calling for central planning to meet the challenges of global warming. While the article’s proposals were hardly as radical as recent calls for a renewed “war communism,” it was remarkable…
Read MoreMid-term conference of the Graduiertenkolleg ‘Practicing Place’ November 10-11, 2022 | KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt Deadline: June 15, 2022
Read MoreJuly 7-9, 2022 | Bayerische Amerika-Akademie / Amerikahaus München | Hybrid Event This year’s annual conference of the Bavarian American Academy investigates how the American Revolution functioned as a usable past, inspiring social movements, informing both state- and nation-building processes, and justifying political change in other world regions throughout the ages. The American Revolution is,…
Read More04. bis 15. Mai 2022 in den Münchner Spielorten | 09. bis 22. Mai 2022 deutschlandweit @home Herzlich willkommen zum ersten dualen DOK.fest München! Kino oder Online? Warum nicht beides? Das duale DOK.fest München 2022 macht unser ausgewähltes Filmprogramm für ein größtmögliches Publikum zugänglich: Die 124 Filme aus 55 Ländern werden sowohl in München auf…
Read MoreVeranstaltungsreihe des Bund demokratischer Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler gemeinsam mit dem freien zusammenschluss von student*innenschaften und dem Netzwerk Gute Arbeit in der Wissenschaft
Read More8th International Osnabrueck Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law University of Osnabrueck | July 16-24, 2022 Application Deadline: May 15, 2022 http://www.osi.uni-osnabrueck.de/ The International Osnabrueck Summer Institute on the Cultural Study of the Law (OSI) will be held from July 16 to 24, 2022 at the University of Osnabrueck, Germany. Since 2009,…
Read MoreThursday, May 19, 2022, 6:00-8:00 pm | Lecture Hall 17 (HS XVII), Regina- Pacis-Weg 5, 53113 Bonn The North American Studies Program at the University of Bonn is proud to welcome the acclaimed Native American writer and academic Diane Glancy (Cherokee) for a reading from her diverse body of work. With over 60 books of…
Read MoreMAY 13, 2022 | 2 P.M. – 4 P.M. VIA ZOOM The GAAS will organize a Town Hall on May 13, 2022, 2 to 4 p.m. (organizer: Miriam Strube, moderator: Jeanne Cortiel) This meeting focuses on women’s roles in German Academia at large and in the GAAS in particular. Featuring short statements by four women…
Read MoreJune 14, 2022, 10.30 a.m. – 6 p.m. Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt
Read More5th workshop of the DFG research network “The Failure of Knowledge – Knowledges of Failure.” April 21-22, 2022 Hosted by the Institute for English and American Studies at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, organized by Marius Henderson, Molina Klingler (University of Würzburg), and Marlon Lieber (Christian- Albrechts-University Kiel) More information: https://knowledge-failure.org/events/ and https://knowledge-failure.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Poster-Erlangen.pdf Keynote Susan J. Matt: https://fau.zoom.us/j/62861104661?pwd=WkV1Q0I3Q2M1ZWZ4dy8vTjQ1VFpTUT09…
Read MoreApril 28-29, 2022 | Virtual At a moment in history when the Covid-19 crisis coincides with the Black Lives Matter movement’s protests against racism and systemic oppression, this interdisciplinary conference investigates how intersectionality, as an analytical category and an experience focusing on mutually constitutive systems of discrimination, engages and narrates blackness in the U.S. and…
Read MoreParis Lodron University of Salzburg | October 21-23, 2022 Deadline: May 31, 2022 Conference website: https://aaas.at/salzburg-2022/
Read MoreDoing│Teaching American Studies Series | Thursday, June 2, 2022, 7:30 PM, online Deadline (short abstract): May 9, 2022 “I was to dream of a prose which was flexible, and swift as American change is swift, confronting the inequalities and brutalities of our society forthrightly, yet thrusting forth its images of hope, human fraternity and individual…
Read MoreVeranstaltet vom DFG-Netzwerk „The Failure of Knowledge – Knowledges of Failure“ 18. Mai 2022, 18:00-19:30 Uhr Referent_innen: Paula-Irene Villa Braslavsky (Soziologie/Gender Studies, LMU), Jörg Radtke (Politikwissenschaft, Univ. Siegen), Simon Strick (Amerikanistik/Medienwissenschaft, ZeM Brandenburg) Moderation: Katharina Motyl (Amerikanistik, Univ. Mannheim) Link erhältlich unter: l.fender@stud.uni-hannover.de Das Thema Wissenschaftsleugnung ist angesichts der Pandemie noch virulenter geworden. Coronaleugner_innen lehnen…
Read MoreTuesday, April 26, 2022, 19:00-20:00 CET (10:00 am PST) Registration and more information: https://virtualspeakerseries.org/
Read MoreApril 1, 2022 | 2 p.m. – 5 p.m. via Zoom The GAAS’s Digital American Studies Initiative (DASI) will organize a townhall meeting on April 1, 2022, 2 to 5 p.m. Featuring a panel of international experts and an extensive Q&A session, the meeting focuses on the role of DH methods, the politics of data…
Read MoreObama Institute for Transnational American Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz | April 29, 2022, 12 p.m. – 6 p.m. The Obama Institute for Transnational American Studies organizes a symposium on the heritage of Colonial Germany and the presence of people of African descent in German society. This trilateral investigation ranges from Germany to Africa, America…
Read MoreApril 20, 2022 6 p.m. CEST via Zoom
Read MoreOnline Event, 30 March 2022, 6 p.m. CET
Read MoreVirtual Conversations Continued April 7, 2022, 2 p.m. – 4 p.m. (Berlin, CET) via Zoom Conference Organizer: Laura-Isabella Heitz (MLU Halle-Wittenberg), Khristeena Lute (SUNY Adirondack), Julia Nitz (MLU Halle-Wittenberg), Sandra H. Petrulionis (Penn State University, Altoona) “The London and Berlin Lyceum Clubs – Service, Transnational Advocacies and Nationalist Self-interest before World War I” by Christine Spreizer…
Read MoreMay 6-7, 2022 | University of Innsbruck Deadline: March 28, 2022
Read MoreVienna | October 19-21, 2022 Deadline: May 6, 2022
Read MoreFebruary 24-25, 2022 Located at the intersection of art, scholarship, and personal exploration, videographic criticism refers to the study of audiovisual culture in audiovisual form. The videographic critic uses editing software to produce analyses and commentaries about film, television, games, online material etc., and typically communicates the results in the form of video essays. The…
Read MoreOnline Conference | February 24-26, 2022 Pamphlets are everywhere. In recent years, the polemical texts of the #MeToo movement, of Black Lives Matter, of anticapitalist movements, of Brexit, of anti-abortion coalitions, or of digital secessionists have demonstrably affected the normative fabric of Western societies. Pamphletary literature and the responses it elicits are at the core…
Read MoreAn International Symposium at Europa-Universität Flensburg | May 16-17, 2022 Registration Deadline: May 1, 2022 Designs of Tomorrow: Indigenous Futurities in Literature and Culture An International Symposium at Europa-Universität Flensburg, May 16-17, 2022 Conference website: https://www.uni-flensburg.de?49737 The conference will be on-site/in person, everyone interested is welcome. Please register by May 1, 2022 via native.futures@uni-flensburg.de. When we…
Read MoreUniversity of Bamberg | April 29-30, 2022 | Via Zoom Deadline: February 28, 2022 “Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.” Vanessa Redgrave speaks these lines on stage, in the monologue play The Year of Magical Thinking , impersonating Joan Didion and…
Read MoreFebruary 11 & 12, 2022 | Online Dear colleagues, We are pleased to open registration and present the program for this year’s annual meeting of historians of the German Association for American Studies on the topic of “Labor and Capital in U.S. History” (February 11 and 12). Due to the current pandemic situation,…
Read More“Learning from Black History about Building Bridges across Race, Ethnicity, and Religion” A program of the U.S. Embassy and U.S. Consulates in Germany in cooperation with Virtual Speaker Series Monday, February 14, 2022, 19:00 – 20:00 CET (virtual)
Read MoreInstitute of English and American Studies, Goethe-University Frankfurt Jan 28 2022, 6pm (s.t.), CET, Zoom AfropessimismA Reading and Conversation with Frank Wilderson III Frank Wilderson’s 2020 book Afropessimism has generated a fervent debate about the lasting presence of slavery and the centrality of anti-Black violence for the project of modernity. Wilderson’s melange of memoir, philosophy,…
Read MoreBereich North American Studies | Political Science (Besoldungsgruppe A 14 Z, Vollzeit, 7 SWS) Deadline: December 31, 2021
Read MoreDecember 16, 2021 | 7 p.m. CET | 1 p.m. EDT | 10 a.m. PDT Fulbright Lecture on Afrofuturism Speakers: Prof. Dr. Dennis Chester (California State University, East Bay) Prof. Dr. Priscilla Layne (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Read MoreJanuary 13, 2022 | Zoom An Online Symposium with John Stauffer (Harvard) and Maurice Wallace (Rutgers). Organized by Dustin Breitenwischer (Universität Hamburg). January 13, 2022, 16-20h. Open to the Public (via Zoom). Please register via email to dustin.breitenwischer@uni-hamburg.de by January 11, 2022.
Read MoreDate: February 3, 2022 | 7.30 – 9.15 p.m. | Zoom Proposal Deadline: December 20, 2021 During our first teach-in in February 2021, we considered the Trump administration’s 1776 Report and its impact on teaching American Studies (in Germany). Our proposal for a new event picks up the underlying baseline of “doing” and “teaching” American Studies by…
Read MoreNovember 10, 2021, 3-7 PM Virtual Seminar: “The Mobile Archive Project”, November 10, 2021, 3-7 PMRegistration: https://www.uni-siegen.de/phil/anglistik/mobilearchives/ (Please register by November 9, 2021) Keywords: archive, nationalism, colonial America, translation, historiographyConference organizers: Markus Heide (Stiftung Universität Hildesheim, Germany), Thomas Hallock (University of South Florida St. Petersburg, USA), Marcel Hartwig (University of Siegen, Germany), Lenin Martell Gámez (Autonomous University of…
Read MoreNovember 10-12, 2021 | John F. Kennedy Institute, FU Berlin and online The fourth thematic workshop of the DFG research network “The Failure of Knowledge – Knowledges of Failure” addresses the dynamics of knowledge production within and among social institutions. With sustained challenges from divergent political actors to the ideal of knowledge as rational, objective,…
Read MoreFriday, December 3, 2021, 4-7 pm CEST | 10 am-1 pm EDT (on zoom) Poet Taylor Johnson (Washington, D.C.), whose debut collection Inheritance appeared in 2020, is joining us for our third installment in this series. Taylor Johnson received fellowships from Cave Canem and the Conversation Literary Festival and their work has appeared in The…
Read MoreSwiss Association for North American Studies Biennial Conference | Online, November 5-6, 2021 It is with great pleasure that we are inviting you to sign up for the SANAS Biennial Conference entitled “Work: The Labors of Language, Culture, and History,” which will take place online on 5-6 November 2021. The conference uses a mix of…
Read MoreTitle: Saving Our Planet? What We Need to Do Now to Combat Climate Challenges and Secure Our Future Thursday, October 28, 19:00 Prof. Dr. Miranda SchreursDr. Miranda Schreurs is Professor and Chair of Environmental and Climate Policy at the Bavarian School of Public Policy at the Technical University Munich. Her main research areas are in…
Read MoreSeptember 30, 2021 | 20.00-21.00 CET With Dr. Katharina Wilkinson, author, strategist, teacher and co-founder of The All We Can Save Project and Dr. Catrin Gersdorf, Professor and Chair of American Studies at the University of Würzburg Time magazine featured Dr. Wilkinson as one of 15 “women who will save the world” and Apolitical named…
Read More11. und 12. November 2021 | Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena Programm und Anmeldung auf www.rkfu-workshop.de Dieser interdisziplinäre Workshop setzt sich mit der Frage auseinander, wie rassismuskritischer Fremdsprachenunterricht ganz konkret aussehen kann. Welche Chancen und Herausforderungen ergeben sich für Lehrkräfte und was brauchen sie, um das Thema Rassismus im Unterricht zu reflektieren? Was für Materialien, Methoden und Themen bieten…
Read More16. September, 17:00 CEST | Civics in the Hot Seat: Civic Education & Politische Bildung Under Pressure Bitte melden Sie sich hier an: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYvdeqgqj0rHtU3wQ0i2cWzvpyIKhbk9KBr Civics and history education has received an enormous increase in attention recently from policy-makers, funders, and the general public in both Germany and the U.S. Similar societal challenges – racism and…
Read MoreDate: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 | 18.30-20.00 (CET) Across literature, film, radio, television, and computational media, seriality and serialization have been important formal and narrative strategies for popular media cultures from the nineteenth century onward. Series mark out temporal trajectories that invite long-term integration into our lives, providing opportunities for ongoing identification/disidentification and accompanying our…
Read MoreRegistration deadline: Oct 7 (workshop & keynotes)/ Oct 19 (keynotes only) Organized by Dr. Katrin Horn, PD Dr. Karin Hoepker, and Selina Foltinek This conference investigates the ways in which cultures of knowledge and forms of capital intersect in the US during the long nineteenth century. Epistemological and economic concerns complexly intertwine in the US,…
Read MoreDate: Sept. 10, 2021 9/11: Twenty Years On When the second of four hijacked passenger airliners flew into the World Trade Center in New York on September 11, 2001, shocked onlookers around the globe realized that what they were watching on television was unlikely to be an accident. The terrorists behind the attacks had orchestrated…
Read More20/20 Vision: Citizenship/Space/Renewal – 2020 EAAS Conference — Warsaw, April 30 – May 2, 2021 (Online) Find the EAAS Programm here: http://eaas2020.eu/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/EAAS%202021%20-%20program.pdf
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The third Town Hall will take place on April 16, 3-5PM (CET). In the third town hall, we would like to turn back to an integral facet of the discussion of the first town hall, that of structural racism and the GAAS’s role as an organization of American Studies scholars, many of whom are based…
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Dear DGfA members, Our second town hall meeting will take place on Friday, March 5, between 3 and 5pm and will be organized in cooperation with the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI). This event is for all GAAS members and will address the career paths of non-tenured scholars. The planned #2 GAAS Town Hall will…
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Dear DGfA members, Our first townhall meeting will take place on Friday, November 27, 2020 between 2 and 5pm.It will be organized in cooperation with the Obama Institute in Mainz. You will receive an invitation link via e-mail. We hope, that this event will help to stay in touch in difficult times, as well as…
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DASI, the Digital American Studies Initiative, will offer a second public Zoom meeting for American studies scholars to discuss how the ongoing pandemic pushes us to embrace digital technologies to an extent unimaginable just a few months ago. The meeting will take place on September 28, 2020, at 10am. We want to use this second…
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With regard to the recent travel ban to the United States, the German Association for American Studies (GAAS) supports the Resolution “Science is International” of the Science Organizations in Germany (February 7, 2017).
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English Department, University of Münster, February 20-21, 2017 Registration is now open. To register, please send a short e-mail with the header ‘registration literature and citizenship’ stating your name and affiliation to citizenshipandliterature@wwu.de. There are no conference fees but in order to facilitate our planning, please register at your earliest convenience For the conference program and…
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7.-8. Juli 2016, Alte Gießerei (Heyligenstaedt, Aulweg 41, 35392 Gießen) Laden Jubiläen meist zur Reflexion über Vergangenes ein, richtet das Gießener Graduiertenzentrum Kulturwissenschaften im Jubiläumsjahr 2016 den Blick nach vorn. Mit dem internationalen Symposium „Futures of the Study of Culture“ feiern das GGK und das GCSC (International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture) ihr…
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April 9-10, 2016; Alte Universitätsbibliothek (Universitätsstraße 4/Eingang: Schuhstraße), 91054 Erlangen Organized by Katharina Gerund and Heike Paul Following a broader ‘turn to affect’ (Patricia Clough) in the humanities and the social sciences, this conference seeks to investigate public feeling – as articulation, representation, and cultural and institutional practice – and the various functions it has…
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